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Ihsan Kahveci

Employment

Graduate Research Assistant

PI: Dr. Zack Almquist, University of Washington

Seattle, WA

Current - 2021

  • Feasibility Study for Puget Sound Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Data Survey
  • Literature Survey on Demography, Health and Data Science
  • Quantified Self: Societal Implications of Self Tracking

Data Science for Social Good Fellow

eScience Institute, University of Washington

Seattle, WA

2022

  • Project: Tracking family and intergenerational poverty using administrative data
  • Designed and managed PostgreSQL database.     • Conducted stakeholder interviews.
  • Created statistical models to predict households.   • Developed a research prototype.

Graduate Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Germany

2021

  • Evaluated non-response bias correction methods for large-online surveys

Projects

Measuring the Quality of Online Recruitment for Demographic and COVID-19 Pro-Social Behavior

Population Association of America Annual Meeting (accepted)

N/A

2023

  • Used bootstrap methods to analyze the impact of algorithmic bias.
  • Integrated samples from a household panel survey and a social media survey.
  • Implemented propensity score weighting to minimize nonsampling error.

Pilot Study for Puget Sound Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Survey

• Merged public address records with Census block-level population counts.
• Created reports and maps for designing the sampling schema.
• Conducted interviews and focus groups with survey respondents.

N/A

2022

Medical Professionals’ Expressions of Vaccine Hesitancy Online

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting

N/A

2022

  • Verified 2000 healthcare workers in Twitter using public records.
  • Used NLP methods to predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

Nationalism in Religious Discourse: Examining Kurdish-Turkish Conflict

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting

N/A

2021

  • Used NLP methods to study religious texts in Turkish.
  • Interviewed government employees. • Conducted ethnographic fieldwork in mosques.

Education

PhD Candidate, Sociology (exp. 2024)

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

Current - 2019

  • MA, Sociology (2021)
  • Graduate Certificate in Demography (2022)
  • Concentration in Social Statistics (2022)

BA, Management, High Honors

Bogazici University

Istanbul, Turkey

2019 - 2014